We Find the Bunyip

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We Find the Bunyip
Written by Ray Mathew
Date premieredAugust 14, 1955 (1955-08-14)
Place premieredWollongong Pioneer Hall, Wollongong
Original languageEnglish
Genrecomedy

We Find the Bunyip is a 1955 Australian play by Ray Mathew. It is a comedy set in an Australian country pub.

It was highly commended in a competition from the Playwrights' Advisory Board that was won by Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and The Torrents . [1] The play was produced at Sydney's Independent Theatre in a production sponsored by the Elizabethan Theatre Trust. [2] [3] The Sydney Morning Herald praised its humour and observation through criticised the lack of story. [4]

The Bulletin praised the script as "lively, comic, full of love and grog, possibly a bit squalid, but with an underlying or pervading atmosphere of poetry." [5]

References

  1. ↑ Australian Broadcasting Commission. (17 September 1955), "AUSTRALIAN PLAY COMPETITION", ABC Weekly, 17 (37), Sydney: ABC, nla.obj-1540599251, retrieved 26 July 2023– via Trove
  2. ↑ ""The 17th Doll"", The Bulletin, John Ryan Comic Collection (Specific issues)., 77 (3962), Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 18 Jan 1956, ISSN   0007-4039, nla.obj-694057937, retrieved 26 July 2023– via Trove
  3. ↑ "SUNDRY SHOWS Stage and Music", The Bulletin, John Ryan Comic Collection (Specific issues)., 76 (3943), Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 7 Sep 1955, ISSN   0007-4039, nla.obj-693185891, retrieved 26 July 2023– via Trove
  4. ↑ "Bush pub is setting of new comedy". The Sydney Morning Herald. 30 August 1955. p. 10.
  5. ↑ "SUNDRY SHOWS TALKIES THEATRE MUSIC ART Stage and Music", The Bulletin, John Ryan Comic Collection (Specific issues)., 76 (3941), Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 24 Aug 1955, ISSN   0007-4039, nla.obj-693175575, retrieved 26 July 2023– via Trove
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